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Jekyll
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Creating excerpts in Astro
This blog is running on Hugo. It had previously been running on Jekyll. Both these SSGs ship with the ability to create excerpts from your markdown content in 1 line or thereabouts.
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Jekyll
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Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
As per many other comments, it sounds like a static site generator like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) or Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/), hosted on GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/) or GitLab Pages (https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/pages/), would be a good match. If you set up GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD to do the build and deploy (see e.g. https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/), your normal workflow will simply be to edit markdown and do a git push to make your changes live. There are a number of pre-built themes (e.g. https://themes.gohugo.io/) you can use, and these are realtively straightforward to tweak to your requirements.
Here's my personal blog, set up in 2019 on github pages (free hosting), built with Jekyll [1] which supports markdown, code snippets, tags, sections and more.
For a technical person, it does the job pretty well and almost without any maintenance effort:
- Github: https://github.com/TCGV/Blog
- Live: https://thomasvilhena.com/
In future, if you want to move from Jekyll to something else, you just have to worry about that `_posts` and `_assets` folder. They may have different naming convention but you can just config-managed it or change it to your choice. This is why I suggested owning that two yourself.
You also may not worry about FrontMatter[3] (meta in the header) and its accompanying jazz by asking Jekyll to use the plugins `jekyll-optional-front-matter` and `jekyll-titles-from-headings`. These comes as part of the officially supported Jekyll plugins[4] by Github. That way, you are just writing a human-readable plain-text spiced up with Markdown and readable by almost every other Static Site Generator.
Now, play with the `_config.yml` that Jekyll generates for you from the theme above to define your post dates, navigation, and others. Jekyll is one of the OGs — the Gandalf of Static Site Generators. If you have a problem, someone somewhere has solved that.
Did I missed something? I was supposed to write a blog article for my website on this one and this comment will serve as my starting bullet points.
1. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...
3. https://frontmatter.codes/docs/markdown
4. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...
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Where are the layouts!? And where is the site object loaded from? (Chirpy Theme)
"Using the Chirpy theme for Jekyll."
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Any FOSS to make HTML websites for self-hosting?
I would suggest looking into static site generators. Some popular examples, which are used myself are: - Hugo: https://gohugo.io/ - Jekyll: https://jekyllrb.com
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How To Choose the Best Static Site Generator and Deploy it to Kinsta for Free
In terms of GitHub stars, SSGs like Next.js, Hugo, Gatsby, Docusaurus, Nuxt.js, and Jekyll top the list. Some popular SSGs even host conferences and workshops, providing resources and networking opportunities for those looking to explore more advanced topics in depth.
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How to run Jekyll on Kubernetes
I created my blog using Jekyll, a great open-source tool that can transform your markdown content into a simple, old-fashioned-but-trendy, static site. What are the advantages of this approach? The site is super-light, super-fast, super-secure and SEO-friendly. Of course, it’s not always the best solution, but for some use cases, like a simple personal blog, it’s really a good option.
Hexo
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Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
A lot of great suggestions here and some stuff I’ve never heard of before!
Throwing my own suggestion into the ring, as I was just looking into this last week.
I started setting up a blog using Hexo. It’s another Node based SSG that uses markdown and supports tags. It has a lot of neat plugins that people have developed, too.
I like it so far!
There's also hexo [1]. I saw that on Matt Klein's website [2] and the theme looked pretty clean.
[1] https://hexo.io
[2] https://mattklein123.dev/2020/03/08/2020-03-07-new-website/
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Top ten popular static site generators (SSG) in 2023
Hexo — best lightweight SSG
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Building a static blog using Jekyll & Strapi
To make their creation easier, numerous open-source static websites generators are available: Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Hexo, etc. Most of the time, the content is managed through static (ideally Markdown) files or a Content API. Then, the generator requests the content, injects it in templates defined by the developer and generates a bunch of HTML files.
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Running a blog on GithubPages with Markdown storage
https://gohugo.io/ written in go, support md https://hexo.io/ written in node
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Comparing Static and Dynamic Websites
Hexo's
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who is self-hosting a static website and what are you using to build it?
I'm currently using Hexo, I write articles in markdown, commit them to a git repository and push them to Github. I then have a Github Action to bundle the static website and publish it on Github Pages, so I get free hosting 👌
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What I'm Learning in 2022
Some alternatives I'm considering learning instead of Gatsby are Jeckyll or Hexo.
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Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it
Hello Joe_Boogz,
Blog is using Hexo (https://hexo.io/) and a little modified Cactus theme (https://probberechts.github.io/hexo-theme-cactus/). If some of the websites looks interesting to you and you would like how they are built you can use Wappalyzer (https://www.wappalyzer.com/lookup/0ut3r.space)
What are some alternatives?
Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Middleman - Hand-crafted frontend development
Pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.
Ghost - Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Bridgetown - A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
Lektor - The lektor static file content management system
Nanoc - A powerful web publishing system
Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
Nikola - A static website and blog generator
Next.js - The React Framework
eleventy 🕚⚡️ - A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.